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Old 12-11-2016, 10:37 AM   #5
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Originally Posted by DiapDealer View Post
I'm afraid I have no experience with Antergos. I believe that's what @Doitsu uses, though, perhaps he'll be able to offer some insight.
I don't think that this is a Linux-specific problem, because I've never experienced these issues. OTOH, I build Sigil from source and there might be an issue with the repo provided version.

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Originally Posted by AnisioLemos View Post
Nothing shows up, i tried to highlight and looked at preferences too.
I'm afraid, you'll have to be more specific. It's pretty much impossible to end up with blank pages, because Sigil would warn you if you deleted all HTML code and tried to switch to Book View. Ending up with blank pages could theoretically only happen if you use an unusual desktop color scheme, e.g. inverse colors, select a broken display font and/or select white as font and background colors.
Of course, you might also end up with missing text, if you select everything that you've entered so far and then paste new text, which will replace the existing text. You also might not see your text in code view mode, if the text contains only non-Latin characters, e.g. Arabic or Devanagari text. If that's the case, I'll suggest a suitable alternative font for you.

Try the following:

1. In Sigil, select Edit > Preferences > Open Preferences Location.
2. Close Sigil, delete sigil.ini and restart Sigil.
3. Enter This is a test. in Book View mode and switch to Code View. You should see the following code:
Spoiler:
Code:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="no"?><!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.1//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml11/DTD/xhtml11.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<title></title>
</head>
<body>
<p>This is a test.&nbsp;</p>
</body>
</html>

If you don't see the above code report what you see or attach a screen capture.

Since you mentioned that you're not familiar with HTML and CSS maybe a better workflow for you might be:

1. Write your book in OpenOffice/LibreOffice. (Make sure to apply the default styles.)
2. Save it as an ODT/DOCX file and import it with the Sigil ODT/DOCX plugins or export it as an epub with Writer2ePub or convert it with Calibre to an epub.
3. Use Sigil for the final edits.
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